Thomas Tungles says:
"And one more thing - this VRF should have been a web based discussion forum
instead. A lot of the VRF mails are hard to read due to that people use Mime
and HTML encoded messages, include previous VRF mails, adds VEE-programs to
the mails (both undecoded and uuencoded!!!) and so on. And the mail inbox is
filled faster too (!)."
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YES ! This forum would be so much better if it was web based. We could
search for old posts, threads coould be organized in subject groups, we
could point to URL's with excellent posts, instead of reinventing the wheel
on "Excel won't quit" posts, and the commonly recurring themes.
INNOVATION. It just isn't happening. SECURITY is the new priority.
Jeff Davis
Embedded Systems - CDI Technical Services
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Phoenix, Arizona 85034
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I also find it very annoying that 6.1 has incorporated FlexLM licensing. We have about 20 VEE-licenses to be able to run on all lab computer, but hardly use more than 3 at a time! We roll out VEE in a Ghost image so that we can minimize network maintenance. Now we will get serious problems with this.
And what about our laptop computers which may have one LAN port when docked, and none when undocked?
How big is the piracy of VEE - is it really a big problem??? Setting these kind of limits to such a good product really lowers the quality and makes me consider stop to buy updates, stop to buy Agilent instruments (we've got a bunch!) and start looking on competitor products, like LabView, which this VRF pointed out is a bit harder to use than VEE. It feels like I can't recommend VEE to anyone if it's just getting worse now...
It's perhaps just a matter of time, until VEE becomes one of those cracked products downloadable from some anonymous ftp server.
If Matlab is the reason for FlexLM - hey, remove the product from the standard installation, and offer it as an addon feature. I would buy it for the computers that I really need Matlab on.
And one more thing - this VRF should have been a web based discussion forum instead. A lot of the VRF mails are hard to read due to that people use Mime and HTML encoded messages, include previous VRF mails, adds VEE-programs to the mails (both undecoded and uuencoded!!!) and so on. And the mail inbox is filled faster too (!).
A discussion forum could make it easier also to be able to allocate problems that has been discussed and solved before. It can't be that hard to start up something like that!!! The forum website could also offer some kind of ftp-space where people could up- and download VEE example code.
COME ON AGILENT - be agilent!!!
/Tomas Tungel, Test designer at Ericsson
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